Avian malaria is a worldwide mosquito‐borne disease caused by Plasmodium parasites.
These parasites occur in many avian species but primarily affect passerine birds that have …

Habitats are rapidly changing across the planet and the consequences will have major and
long-lasting effects on wildlife and their parasites. Birds harbor many types of blood …

In this time of unprecedented global change, infectious diseases will impact humans and
wildlife in novel and unknown ways. Climate change, the introduction of invasive species …

As biodiversity declines with anthropogenic land-use change, it is increasingly important to
understand how changing biodiversity affects infectious disease risk. The dilution effect …

Haemosporidians (Haemosporida) are cosmopolitan in birds. Over 250 species of these
blood parasites have been described and named; however, molecular markers remain …

Land use changes including deforestation, road construction and agricultural
encroachments have been linked to the increased prevalence of several infectious …

Southeast Brazil is a neotropical region composed of a mosaic of different tropical habitats
and mountain chains, which allowed for the formation of bird-rich communities with distinct …

Critical to the mitigation of parasitic vector-borne diseases is the development of accurate
spatial predictions that integrate environmental conditions conducive to pathogen …

Malaria parasites use vertebrate hosts for asexual multiplication and Culicidae mosquitoes
for sexual and asexual development, yet the literature on avian malaria remains biased …

Studies of both vertebrates and invertebrates have suggested that specialists, as compared
to generalists, are likely to suffer more serious declines in response to environmental …